Red’s Wolves
April 2023
Alera lost her mother early in life and was raised by a strict king for a father and the many nursemaids who crossed themselves before touching her. It wasn’t until she was of marrying age that she learned why the people feared her.
She was canny… like her forest mother. Canny and feared to be fae.
The only person besides her father who didn’t seem to fear her was the handsome stable boy. He knew what she was and didn’t cross himself before letting his hands touch hers longer than needed for helping her to her mount. And on her 18th birthday, neither could deny the bond that dragged them together.
But her father had her sold off to make an advantageous match with the neighboring king’s sullen and cruel son. Even a kingdom over, the whispers of the canny princess the people feared as fae reached royal ears. But they thought to use her to their advantage…to put fear in their own people’s hearts and make them bend the knee.
Now with the kingdom at war with the prince she would have married, Alera must save the people who feared her from an unspeakable fate brought to their door by the sullen prince wielding a dark unknown power.
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Amongst Thieves
Ongoing
In the Den of the Kingdom of Dreduor, money reigns supreme and one’s skill at deception determines how much you can make, and how much longer you will survive.
Maize is a thief- a very good thief, and one of the Den’s best. So when a wealthy benefactor purposefully seeks her out to fulfill a contracted job, she is neither surprised nor hesitant to accept. Only after she discovers it’s the royal palace she needs to infiltrate, Maize quickly finds herself in the middle of the grandest con of her career.
Maize must position herself within the court in order to complete her mission, even if it means capturing the eye- and the heart- of the very Prince she’s supposed to abscond. But will Maize be able to finish the job before her true intentions are discovered?
Or worse- before she finds her heart stolen first?
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Lady Mutiny
2018
When assassin Lilia Cortova is betrayed by the Leader of her Guild, she must decide if her vengeance is greater than her love for her family, and how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the same.
*****
Lady Lilia Cortova, renowned silk merchant by day and deadly assassin by night, all at the age of nineteen, mysteriously disappears while on a routine mission during the annual Midsummer festival. Left alone, her seventeen-year-old sister, Cassandra, must take her place, not only within the City, but within the Underground’s Guild of Assassins as well. But when Lilia discovers she was betrayed by none other than the Leader of the Guild, she must decide if her vengeance is greater than her love for her family, and how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the same. Meanwhile, believing her sister dead, Cassandra has promised herself to the same man who deceived her sister. But when it becomes apparent that the Guild’s loyalties may not lie as deep as once believed, Cass must quickly decide who to trust, and who to eliminate, if she’s to discover what’s truly become of her sister before the same happens to her.
M. Dalto 